coulisse
See also: coulissé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French coulisse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuːˈliːs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːs
Noun
coulisse (plural coulisses)
- A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
- A fluting in a sword blade.
- A side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes.
Translations
piece of timber
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fluting in sword blade
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side scene
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Anagrams
- coulises, leucosis
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French coulisse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkuˈli.zə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: cou‧lis‧se
Noun
coulisse f (plural coulissen)
- side of a stage, dressing room beside a stage, side wing
Derived terms
- coulissenlandschap
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.lis/
France (Grenoble) (file) France (Toulouse) (file)
Etymology 1
From coulis.
Noun
coulisse f (plural coulisses)
- coulisse (piece of timber)
- side of a stage, dressing room
- background
- Soudain, une voix s'éleva en coulisse. ― Suddenly a voice was heard in the background.
- (music, lutherie, bowmaking) underslide, underslide channel
Derived terms
- coulisser
- en coulisse
Descendants
- → Catalan: colís
- → Dutch: coulisse
- → English: coulisse
- → German: Kulisse
- → Polish: kulisa
- → Crimean Tatar: kulisa
- → Hungarian: kulissza
Adjective
coulisse
- feminine singular of coulis
Verb
coulisse
- inflection of coulisser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “coulisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.